There's nothing like playing the last place team in your division to provide a shot of "Get better juice" and snap out of the baseball doldrums. Not far from last place themselves, the Dodgers pulled into San Diego fresh off an impressive win in their last game against the first
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The Dodgers begin a series tonight against the San Diego Padres that is the most critical and consequential of this young season. In this Youtube video I'll tell you why I believe this is the time for the Dodgers to break out or break their backs in Padres country. Also included
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We are in the middle of a rare situation in the NL West, as the Los Angeles Dodgers open up their first three-game series with the San Diego Padres trailing in the division. The Padres currently boast a 1/2 game lead on the Dodgers and will have home-field advantage. Tonight's
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Kenta Maeda is becoming "one of those" Dodger pitchers. When he pitches, people are starting to wonder which Maeda will show up - the awesome one, or the dreadful one? Now that I think about it, the Dodgers overall, are "one of those" teams. Here's what happened today in the crazy universe
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Dodgers vs Padres. Game Two. The returns of Adrian Gonzalez and Matt Kemp. Exciting stuff. Alex "Who knows which way he'll bend?" Wood on the mound. Exciting in an entirely different way. Cut to the third inning: 3rd inning Padres Alex Wood strikes out the side. It looked like Strudy Wood was on, as
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The Dodgers opened a weekend series against the San Diego Padres tonight. The big question on everyone's mind wasn't "How will the Dodgers' offense do?" Nope, we were all wondering what ridiculous getup the Padres would try to push-off as a baseball uniform. A: They threw us all for a loop
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The Dodgers had dropped six games in a row, lost back to back series', and were in danger of dropping out of first place in the .500 Division, the NL West. If anybody could stop the skid and right the ship, the best pitcher on planet Earth could do it
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Coming into tonight, the Dodgers had dropped five games in a row, and were on the brink of dropping out of first place in the NL West. Yasiel Puig did not play, which wasn't a bad move, considering Puig's horrible at bats over the past few games. Adrian Gonzalez gets the
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Fresh off a four-game sweep by the Miami Marlins - the worst team on the east coast - tonight was the first game of the Dodgers trying to prove to everyone, including themselves, that they are not really the punching bags they seem to be. Residing National League West punching bags
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Kenta Maeda, the Dodgers' new Japanese import took the mound at Petco Park in his MLB debut tonight, trying to notch his first win and nail down the sweep over the San Diego Padres. Maeda wore number 18, which is the same number of his ex-Hiroshima Carp teammate and ex-Dodger,
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Just 24 hours after the Dodgers pummeled the San Diego Padres with the biggest Opening Day trouncing in history, Scott Kazmir stepped to the mound in Petco Park, and made his own mark as the second half of the one, two lefty punch at the top of the Dodgers' rotation. The
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As far as big days go, my birthday is pretty special. New Years Eve is exciting, and Christmas is pretty great. But nothing touches that feeling I get when Opening Day finally rolls around. The start of another summer full of ups - and some downs - with my life's team,
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